I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

I believe in small because when you work small, people remain accountable to one another. If you hire someone to work at your mom & pop and they live down the street, you can believe you'll be paying them enough that they don't need food stamps.

Yeah, right. This is the old "slaveholders with three slaves instead of a plantation full treated them better".

There is no shortage of small operations that rely on underpaid under-the-table workers to serve their food, stock their shelves, tailor their clothes, etc. Walmarts makes an art of paying the minimum permitted by law, many a small operation simple pays less than the minimum permitted but chooses their victims carefully.

There are a lot of small operations I like a lot and frequent. I think I've been inside a Wallmart twice in my life, I don't like them.

But I'm still going to Starbucks.